In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
Resources:
The Histories of Herodotus: http://goo.gl/I1TM9u
Plato: http://goo.gl/GEcfWX
Plays of Aristophanes: http://goo.gl/xzb9Ff
Crash CourseWorld History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set
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@realjohngreen
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published:23 Feb 2012

views:4671637

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
http://ancientlyre.com/ancient_greek_themed_albums/
For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "MusicalAdventures in TimeTravel", please visit my official website:
http://www.ancientlyre.com
Many thanks for watching!

published:05 Oct 2010

views:1009229

A two-minute animated adventure to Ancient Greece and back again - voiced by Numberphile's JamesGrime!
Often called the "birthplace of civilisation", Ancient Greece heralded numerous advances in philosophy, science, sport and also mathematics. Over six centuries from 600 BC a group of revolutionary thinkers -- from Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus and Aristotle to Euclid, Archimedes and Hypatia of Alexandria -- formalised the rules and language of modern mathematics.
For Greek thinkers, maths wasn't simply a means of calculating amounts but a way of testing reality and understanding the true nature of the world around them. Indeed, Pythagoras is believed to have coined both the words "philosophy" ("love of wisdom") and "mathematics" ("that which is learned"). In turn, Euclid came to be known as the "father of geometry".
At the heart of this new understanding, was the concept of "the proof", developed by Euclid in what is commonly regarded as the most important and successful mathematical textbook of all time -- the "Stoicheion" or "Elements". Built upon the axiomatic method, mathematical proofs were a way of testing assumptions by building up a mathematical argument using self-evident or assumed statements (or, "axioms").
It is this methodology that formed the foundational language and logic of modern mathematics throughout the world. Indeed, Euclid's Elements was widely used as the seminal maths textbook right up until the start of the twentieth century.
Many thanks to James Grime for his expert help on the script and recording the voice-over. Follow him @jamesgrime or find out more at http://singingbanana.com.
Thanks also to the wonderful 12foot6 and PhoebeHalstead for bringing our ideas to life in animated form: http://12foot6.com. Music by Bedřich Smetana: Má Vlast Moldau
This film was made with the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation http://www.snf.org
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published:12 Mar 2014

views:62999

In this video we will discuss Archaic Greece, the time period that
follows the Greek Dark Ages. We also discuss the development of writing
and the polis during this transitional period.
Watch entire playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZr2JvFQqLWSX3UJdbnMoDeMjtGb-CwYm

ProfessorMark Mazower
Thursday 29 November2012The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, LondonSW1Y 5AH
This is the third in a series of three lectures being given on 'The Making and Breaking of States'.
The War of GreekIndependence was a turning point in modern history as it marked the emergence of the first nation-state in Europe and was of course hailed by the champions of liberty and by philhellenes all over the world. This lecture asks how this event was interpreted by three other sets of contemporaries. First, new research casts a fresh light on the Ottoman response to the Greek rebellion, a response characterised both by violence -- as in the massacres on Chios -- and by a perhaps surprising equanimity. Second, how it was interpreted by the members of the Concert of Europe and what implications it seemed to carry for this new effort at managing international relations. And thirdly, how it was interpreted more widely, by commentators and statesmen, at a time when affairs in Europe reverberated in Asia and the Americas, and helped to produce a new consciousness of the global character of international politics.
About the Speaker
Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of HIstory at Columbia University and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. He studied classics, philosophy and modern history at Oxford University and is the author of numerous books on modern Greek, European and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World: the History of an Idea will be published by Penguin in the US and the UK in September.
To find out more visit: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2012/Greek_War_of_Independence.cfm

published:11 Dec 2012

views:4157

An introduction to the Greek alphabet, using the pronunciation of the biblical era.

published:05 Aug 2015

views:46828

Amateur readings (in Attic~Ionic style) of the opening Lines1-7 of the Iliad, and the start of Euclid's ElementsBook 13.17 (on dodecahedron)
I loosely transliterated the Iliad lines into MycenaeanLinear B, (for fun), since the Iliad likely depicts the Mycenaean Greek era.
Digamma 'w' was lost in Classical Greek, but persisted in some dialects.
I think diaresis iota ï marked syllabic stress, or possibly a glottal stop syllable break (uncertain).
Doubled consonants are geminated / long.
I think acute accent is a high tone on short vowels,
and rising tone on long vowels ω ει η ου.
Circumflex / squiggle is universal high falling tone.
Grave is neutral or mid-low tone (I think).

The language of the Hellenistic phase is known as Koine (common), while the language from the late period onward features no considerable differences from Medieval Greek. Koine is regarded as a separate historical stage of its own, although in its earlier form, it closely resembled the Classical. Prior to the Koine period, Greek of the classic and earlier periods included several regional dialects.

Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of classical Athenian historians, playwrights, and philosophers. It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the West since the Renaissance. This article primarily contains information about the Epic and Classical phases of the language.

Era

An era is a span of time marked by character, events, changes on earth, etc. When used in science, for example geology, an era denotes a clearly defined period of time of arbitrary but well-defined length, such as for example the Mesozoic Era frozen m 252 Ma–66 Ma, delimited by a start event and an end event. When used in social history, eras may for example denote a period of some monarch's reign. In colloquial language, eras denote longer spans of time, before and after which the practices or fashions change to a significant degree. When era is extended to a calendar system, it is known as a calendar era. In Sanskrit or Indian culture eras are known as Yugas.

Uses

In chronology, an era is the highest level for the organization of the measurement of time. A calendar era indicates a span of many years which are numbered beginning at a specific reference date (epoch), which often marks the origin of a political state or cosmology, dynasty, ruler, the birth of a leader, or another significant historical or mythological event; it is generally called after its focus accordingly as in Victorian era.

Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean Basin and Europe. For this reason Classical Greece is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture and is considered as the cradle of Western civilization. However, unlike Western culture, the Ancient Greeks did not think in terms of race.

The Persians & Greeks: Crash Course World History #5

In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
Resources:
The Histories of Herodotus: http://goo.gl/I1TM9u
Plato: http://goo.gl/GEcfWX
Plays of Aristophanes: http://goo.gl/xzb9Ff
Crash CourseWorld History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set
Follow us!
@thecrashcourse
@realjohngreen
@raoulmeyer
@crashcoursestan
@saysdanica
@thoughtbubbler
Like us! ‪http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse
Follow us again! ‪http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com
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9:49

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
http://ancientlyre.com/ancient_greek_themed_albums/
For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "MusicalAdventures in TimeTravel", please visit my official website:
http://www.ancientlyre.com
Many thanks for watching!

2:01

The Greek Legacy: How the Ancient Greeks shaped modern mathematics

The Greek Legacy: How the Ancient Greeks shaped modern mathematics

The Greek Legacy: How the Ancient Greeks shaped modern mathematics

A two-minute animated adventure to Ancient Greece and back again - voiced by Numberphile's JamesGrime!
Often called the "birthplace of civilisation", Ancient Greece heralded numerous advances in philosophy, science, sport and also mathematics. Over six centuries from 600 BC a group of revolutionary thinkers -- from Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus and Aristotle to Euclid, Archimedes and Hypatia of Alexandria -- formalised the rules and language of modern mathematics.
For Greek thinkers, maths wasn't simply a means of calculating amounts but a way of testing reality and understanding the true nature of the world around them. Indeed, Pythagoras is believed to have coined both the words "philosophy" ("love of wisdom") and "mathematics" ("that which is learned"). In turn, Euclid came to be known as the "father of geometry".
At the heart of this new understanding, was the concept of "the proof", developed by Euclid in what is commonly regarded as the most important and successful mathematical textbook of all time -- the "Stoicheion" or "Elements". Built upon the axiomatic method, mathematical proofs were a way of testing assumptions by building up a mathematical argument using self-evident or assumed statements (or, "axioms").
It is this methodology that formed the foundational language and logic of modern mathematics throughout the world. Indeed, Euclid's Elements was widely used as the seminal maths textbook right up until the start of the twentieth century.
Many thanks to James Grime for his expert help on the script and recording the voice-over. Follow him @jamesgrime or find out more at http://singingbanana.com.
Thanks also to the wonderful 12foot6 and PhoebeHalstead for bringing our ideas to life in animated form: http://12foot6.com. Music by Bedřich Smetana: Má Vlast Moldau
This film was made with the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation http://www.snf.org
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11:46

Ancient Greek History - Archaic Greece and the Greek Polis - 04

Ancient Greek History - Archaic Greece and the Greek Polis - 04

Ancient Greek History - Archaic Greece and the Greek Polis - 04

In this video we will discuss Archaic Greece, the time period that
follows the Greek Dark Ages. We also discuss the development of writing
and the polis during this transitional period.
Watch entire playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZr2JvFQqLWSX3UJdbnMoDeMjtGb-CwYm

Greek War of Independence in a Global Era at the British Academy

ProfessorMark Mazower
Thursday 29 November2012The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, LondonSW1Y 5AH
This is the third in a series of three lectures being given on 'The Making and Breaking of States'.
The War of GreekIndependence was a turning point in modern history as it marked the emergence of the first nation-state in Europe and was of course hailed by the champions of liberty and by philhellenes all over the world. This lecture asks how this event was interpreted by three other sets of contemporaries. First, new research casts a fresh light on the Ottoman response to the Greek rebellion, a response characterised both by violence -- as in the massacres on Chios -- and by a perhaps surprising equanimity. Second, how it was interpreted by the members of the Concert of Europe and what implications it seemed to carry for this new effort at managing international relations. And thirdly, how it was interpreted more widely, by commentators and statesmen, at a time when affairs in Europe reverberated in Asia and the Americas, and helped to produce a new consciousness of the global character of international politics.
About the Speaker
Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of HIstory at Columbia University and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. He studied classics, philosophy and modern history at Oxford University and is the author of numerous books on modern Greek, European and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World: the History of an Idea will be published by Penguin in the US and the UK in September.
To find out more visit: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2012/Greek_War_of_Independence.cfm

10:00

The Greek Alphabet (Koine Era Pronunciation)

The Greek Alphabet (Koine Era Pronunciation)

The Greek Alphabet (Koine Era Pronunciation)

An introduction to the Greek alphabet, using the pronunciation of the biblical era.

1:15

Reconstructed Ancient Greek Spoken (Iliad and Euclid)

Reconstructed Ancient Greek Spoken (Iliad and Euclid)

Reconstructed Ancient Greek Spoken (Iliad and Euclid)

Amateur readings (in Attic~Ionic style) of the opening Lines1-7 of the Iliad, and the start of Euclid's ElementsBook 13.17 (on dodecahedron)
I loosely transliterated the Iliad lines into MycenaeanLinear B, (for fun), since the Iliad likely depicts the Mycenaean Greek era.
Digamma 'w' was lost in Classical Greek, but persisted in some dialects.
I think diaresis iota ï marked syllabic stress, or possibly a glottal stop syllable break (uncertain).
Doubled consonants are geminated / long.
I think acute accent is a high tone on short vowels,
and rising tone on long vowels ω ει η ου.
Circumflex / squiggle is universal high falling tone.
Grave is neutral or mid-low tone (I think).

Greek Art History from Goodbye-Art Academy

The Human Body in Ancient Greek Art and Thought

IAN JENKINS, PH.D.
SENIOR CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF GREECE AND ROME, BRITISH MUSEUMJenkins explores Greek notions of ideal beauty in both nude and draped images of the male and female human bodies. He contrasts the moral aesthetic of sound mind in sound body with other representations to show how the human form served as a bearer of many meanings. Anthropomorphic gods, larger than life heroes, part-human part-animal monsters of myth are all considered as a visual language. His talk concludes with the legacy of the Greek experience in the Roman era and its transmission to the present day.

1:08:45

Forgotten Empires: Ancient Greek | Full History Documentary

Forgotten Empires: Ancient Greek | Full History Documentary

Forgotten Empires: Ancient Greek | Full History Documentary

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Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (ca. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era.[1] Included in ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.
Ancient Greek, Greek, Ancient

9:27

Lineage 2 Elite Greek Era II

Lineage 2 Elite Greek Era II

Lineage 2 Elite Greek Era II

3:54

Michalis Terzis - Esperos - Greek Moods - Aphrodite Era

Michalis Terzis - Esperos - Greek Moods - Aphrodite Era

Michalis Terzis - Esperos - Greek Moods - Aphrodite Era

Subscribe here! https://www.youtube.com/user/ARCMusicProductions
Atmospheric music by Michalis Terzis with traditional violin, santuri, lutes and tzoura, but also including clarinet, saxophone, guitars and English horn.
“Soundscapes, like the fresh wind created by the light breath of the waves of the Aegean, the blue of its sky, a ritual composed of sounds and tunes, awakening memories and dreams leading on a trip through time.” - M. Terzis
iTunes http://geni.us/oLJ
Amazon http://geni.us/2oik

7:16

The Ancient Greek and Roman ART - Facts

The Ancient Greek and Roman ART - Facts

The Ancient Greek and Roman ART - Facts

The AncientGreek and RomanART - Facts
The arts of ancient Greece have exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries all over the world, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture. In theWest, the art of the Roman Empire was largely derived from Greek models. In the East, Alexander the Great's conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Central Asian and Indian cultures, resulting in Greco-Buddhist art, with ramifications as far as Japan. Following the Renaissance in Europe, the humanist aesthetic and the high technical standards of Greek art inspired generations of European artists. Well into the 19th century, the classical tradition derived from Greece dominated the art of the western world.
The art of Ancient Greece is usually divided stylistically into four periods: the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. The Geometric age is usually dated from about 1000 BC, although in reality little is known about art in Greece during the preceding 200 years (traditionally known as the Greek Dark Ages), the period of the 7th century BC witnessed the slow development of the Archaic style as exemplified by the black-figure style of vase painting. The onset of the Persian Wars (480 BC to 448 BC) is usually taken as the dividing line between the Archaic and the Classical periods, and the reign of Alexander the Great (336 BC to 323 BC) is taken as separating the Classical from the Hellenistic periods.
Roman art refers to the visual arts made in Ancient Rome and in the territories of the Roman Empire. Roman art includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work. Luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass, are sometimes considered in modern terms to be minor forms of Roman art,[1] although this would not necessarily have been the case for contemporaries. Sculpture was perhaps considered as the highest form of art by Romans, but figure painting was also very highly regarded. The two forms have had very contrasting rates of survival, with a very large body of sculpture surviving from about the 1st century BC onwards, though very little from before, but very little painting at all remains, and probably nothing that a contemporary would have considered to be of the highest quality. Ancient Roman pottery was not a luxury product, but a vast production of "fine wares" in terra sigillata were decorated with reliefs that reflected the latest taste, and provided a large group in society with stylish objects at what was evidently an affordable price. Roman coins were an important means of propaganda, and have survived in enormous numbers. Other perishable forms of art have not survived at all.

4:43

Greek history - Archaic period (700-480 BC)

Greek history - Archaic period (700-480 BC)

Greek history - Archaic period (700-480 BC)

6:54

An Introduction to Greek Theatre

An Introduction to Greek Theatre

An Introduction to Greek Theatre

For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online exhibit http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/greek-drama-at-the-national-theatre/gQY_KfFn
This film explores the defining aspects of Greek Theatre. The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there. This collection features video about Greek theatre and productions of Greek plays staged at the National Theatre.
Featured in this film are experts Edith Hall, professor of Classics at Kings College, London, LauraSwift from the Open University, Dr Sean McElvoy from Varndean College, Brighton and actor Michael Grady-Hall from the cast of Antigone.
This film includes performance footage from the 2012 National Theatre production of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay, starring Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker in the title role.
This film was made and directed by ChloeWhite for the National Theatre.
Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre:
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover
Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london
iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes
TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre

The Persians & Greeks: Crash Course World History #5

In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
Resources:
The Histories of Herodotus: http://goo.gl/I1TM9u
Plato: http://goo.gl/GEcfWX
Plays of Aristophanes: http://goo.gl/xzb9Ff
Crash CourseWorld History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set
Follow us!
@thecrashcourse
@realjohngreen
@raoulmeyer
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published: 23 Feb 2012

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
http://ancientlyre.com/ancient_greek_themed_albums/
For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "MusicalAdventures in TimeTravel", please visit my official website:
http://www.ancientlyre.com
Many thanks for...

published: 05 Oct 2010

The Greek Legacy: How the Ancient Greeks shaped modern mathematics

A two-minute animated adventure to Ancient Greece and back again - voiced by Numberphile's JamesGrime!
Often called the "birthplace of civilisation", Ancient Greece heralded numerous advances in philosophy, science, sport and also mathematics. Over six centuries from 600 BC a group of revolutionary thinkers -- from Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus and Aristotle to Euclid, Archimedes and Hypatia of Alexandria -- formalised the rules and language of modern mathematics.
For Greek thinkers, maths wasn't simply a means of calculating amounts but a way of testing reality and understanding the true nature of the world around them. Indeed, Pythagoras is believed to have coined both the words "philosophy" ("love of wisdom") and "mathematics" ("that which is learned"). In turn, Euclid came to be...

published: 12 Mar 2014

Ancient Greek History - Archaic Greece and the Greek Polis - 04

In this video we will discuss Archaic Greece, the time period that
follows the Greek Dark Ages. We also discuss the development of writing
and the polis during this transitional period.
Watch entire playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZr2JvFQqLWSX3UJdbnMoDeMjtGb-CwYm

The Greek Alphabet (Koine Era Pronunciation)

An introduction to the Greek alphabet, using the pronunciation of the biblical era.

published: 05 Aug 2015

Reconstructed Ancient Greek Spoken (Iliad and Euclid)

Amateur readings (in Attic~Ionic style) of the opening Lines1-7 of the Iliad, and the start of Euclid's ElementsBook 13.17 (on dodecahedron)
I loosely transliterated the Iliad lines into MycenaeanLinear B, (for fun), since the Iliad likely depicts the Mycenaean Greek era.
Digamma 'w' was lost in Classical Greek, but persisted in some dialects.
I think diaresis iota ï marked syllabic stress, or possibly a glottal stop syllable break (uncertain).
Doubled consonants are geminated / long.
I think acute accent is a high tone on short vowels,
and rising tone on long vowels ω ει η ου.
Circumflex / squiggle is universal high falling tone.
Grave is neutral or mid-low tone (I think).

AMENO with greek lyrics

Greek Art History from Goodbye-Art Academy

The Human Body in Ancient Greek Art and Thought

IAN JENKINS, PH.D.
SENIOR CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF GREECE AND ROME, BRITISH MUSEUMJenkins explores Greek notions of ideal beauty in both nude and draped images of the male and female human bodies. He contrasts the moral aesthetic of sound mind in sound body with other representations to show how the human form served as a bearer of many meanings. Anthropomorphic gods, larger than life heroes, part-human part-animal monsters of myth are all considered as a visual language. His talk concludes with the legacy of the Greek experience in the Roman era and its transmission to the present day.

Lineage 2 Elite Greek Era II

published: 21 Oct 2014

Michalis Terzis - Esperos - Greek Moods - Aphrodite Era

Subscribe here! https://www.youtube.com/user/ARCMusicProductions
Atmospheric music by Michalis Terzis with traditional violin, santuri, lutes and tzoura, but also including clarinet, saxophone, guitars and English horn.
“Soundscapes, like the fresh wind created by the light breath of the waves of the Aegean, the blue of its sky, a ritual composed of sounds and tunes, awakening memories and dreams leading on a trip through time.” - M. Terzis
iTunes http://geni.us/oLJ
Amazon http://geni.us/2oik

Greek history - Archaic period (700-480 BC)

published: 04 Apr 2017

An Introduction to Greek Theatre

For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online exhibit http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/greek-drama-at-the-national-theatre/gQY_KfFn
This film explores the defining aspects of Greek Theatre. The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there. This collection features video about Greek theatre and productions of Greek plays staged at the National Theatre.
Featured in this film are experts Edith Hall, professor of Classics at Kings College, London, LauraSwift from the OpenUniver...

In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
Resources:
The Histories of Herodotus: http://goo.gl/I1TM9u
Plato: http://goo.gl/GEcfWX
Plays of Aristophanes: http://goo.gl/xzb9Ff
Crash CourseWorld History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set
Follow us!
@thecrashcourse
@realjohngreen
@raoulmeyer
@crashcoursestan
@saysdanica
@thoughtbubbler
Like us! ‪http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse
Follow us again! ‪http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com
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In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
Resources:
The Histories of Herodotus: http://goo.gl/I1TM9u
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Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
http://ancientlyre.com/ancient_greek_themed_albums/
For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "MusicalAdventures in TimeTravel", please visit my official website:
http://www.ancientlyre.com
Many thanks for watching!

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
http://ancientlyre.com/ancient_greek_themed_albums/
For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "MusicalAdventures in TimeTravel", please visit my official website:
http://www.ancientlyre.com
Many thanks for watching!

A two-minute animated adventure to Ancient Greece and back again - voiced by Numberphile's JamesGrime!
Often called the "birthplace of civilisation", Ancient Greece heralded numerous advances in philosophy, science, sport and also mathematics. Over six centuries from 600 BC a group of revolutionary thinkers -- from Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus and Aristotle to Euclid, Archimedes and Hypatia of Alexandria -- formalised the rules and language of modern mathematics.
For Greek thinkers, maths wasn't simply a means of calculating amounts but a way of testing reality and understanding the true nature of the world around them. Indeed, Pythagoras is believed to have coined both the words "philosophy" ("love of wisdom") and "mathematics" ("that which is learned"). In turn, Euclid came to be known as the "father of geometry".
At the heart of this new understanding, was the concept of "the proof", developed by Euclid in what is commonly regarded as the most important and successful mathematical textbook of all time -- the "Stoicheion" or "Elements". Built upon the axiomatic method, mathematical proofs were a way of testing assumptions by building up a mathematical argument using self-evident or assumed statements (or, "axioms").
It is this methodology that formed the foundational language and logic of modern mathematics throughout the world. Indeed, Euclid's Elements was widely used as the seminal maths textbook right up until the start of the twentieth century.
Many thanks to James Grime for his expert help on the script and recording the voice-over. Follow him @jamesgrime or find out more at http://singingbanana.com.
Thanks also to the wonderful 12foot6 and PhoebeHalstead for bringing our ideas to life in animated form: http://12foot6.com. Music by Bedřich Smetana: Má Vlast Moldau
This film was made with the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation http://www.snf.org
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A two-minute animated adventure to Ancient Greece and back again - voiced by Numberphile's JamesGrime!
Often called the "birthplace of civilisation", Ancient Greece heralded numerous advances in philosophy, science, sport and also mathematics. Over six centuries from 600 BC a group of revolutionary thinkers -- from Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus and Aristotle to Euclid, Archimedes and Hypatia of Alexandria -- formalised the rules and language of modern mathematics.
For Greek thinkers, maths wasn't simply a means of calculating amounts but a way of testing reality and understanding the true nature of the world around them. Indeed, Pythagoras is believed to have coined both the words "philosophy" ("love of wisdom") and "mathematics" ("that which is learned"). In turn, Euclid came to be known as the "father of geometry".
At the heart of this new understanding, was the concept of "the proof", developed by Euclid in what is commonly regarded as the most important and successful mathematical textbook of all time -- the "Stoicheion" or "Elements". Built upon the axiomatic method, mathematical proofs were a way of testing assumptions by building up a mathematical argument using self-evident or assumed statements (or, "axioms").
It is this methodology that formed the foundational language and logic of modern mathematics throughout the world. Indeed, Euclid's Elements was widely used as the seminal maths textbook right up until the start of the twentieth century.
Many thanks to James Grime for his expert help on the script and recording the voice-over. Follow him @jamesgrime or find out more at http://singingbanana.com.
Thanks also to the wonderful 12foot6 and PhoebeHalstead for bringing our ideas to life in animated form: http://12foot6.com. Music by Bedřich Smetana: Má Vlast Moldau
This film was made with the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation http://www.snf.org
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Ancient Greek History - Archaic Greece and the Greek Polis - 04

In this video we will discuss Archaic Greece, the time period that
follows the Greek Dark Ages. We also discuss the development of writing
and the polis duri...

In this video we will discuss Archaic Greece, the time period that
follows the Greek Dark Ages. We also discuss the development of writing
and the polis during this transitional period.
Watch entire playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZr2JvFQqLWSX3UJdbnMoDeMjtGb-CwYm

In this video we will discuss Archaic Greece, the time period that
follows the Greek Dark Ages. We also discuss the development of writing
and the polis during this transitional period.
Watch entire playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZr2JvFQqLWSX3UJdbnMoDeMjtGb-CwYm

ProfessorMark Mazower
Thursday 29 November2012The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, LondonSW1Y 5AH
This is the third in a series of three lectures being given on 'The Making and Breaking of States'.
The War of GreekIndependence was a turning point in modern history as it marked the emergence of the first nation-state in Europe and was of course hailed by the champions of liberty and by philhellenes all over the world. This lecture asks how this event was interpreted by three other sets of contemporaries. First, new research casts a fresh light on the Ottoman response to the Greek rebellion, a response characterised both by violence -- as in the massacres on Chios -- and by a perhaps surprising equanimity. Second, how it was interpreted by the members of the Concert of Europe and what implications it seemed to carry for this new effort at managing international relations. And thirdly, how it was interpreted more widely, by commentators and statesmen, at a time when affairs in Europe reverberated in Asia and the Americas, and helped to produce a new consciousness of the global character of international politics.
About the Speaker
Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of HIstory at Columbia University and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. He studied classics, philosophy and modern history at Oxford University and is the author of numerous books on modern Greek, European and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World: the History of an Idea will be published by Penguin in the US and the UK in September.
To find out more visit: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2012/Greek_War_of_Independence.cfm

ProfessorMark Mazower
Thursday 29 November2012The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, LondonSW1Y 5AH
This is the third in a series of three lectures being given on 'The Making and Breaking of States'.
The War of GreekIndependence was a turning point in modern history as it marked the emergence of the first nation-state in Europe and was of course hailed by the champions of liberty and by philhellenes all over the world. This lecture asks how this event was interpreted by three other sets of contemporaries. First, new research casts a fresh light on the Ottoman response to the Greek rebellion, a response characterised both by violence -- as in the massacres on Chios -- and by a perhaps surprising equanimity. Second, how it was interpreted by the members of the Concert of Europe and what implications it seemed to carry for this new effort at managing international relations. And thirdly, how it was interpreted more widely, by commentators and statesmen, at a time when affairs in Europe reverberated in Asia and the Americas, and helped to produce a new consciousness of the global character of international politics.
About the Speaker
Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of HIstory at Columbia University and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. He studied classics, philosophy and modern history at Oxford University and is the author of numerous books on modern Greek, European and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World: the History of an Idea will be published by Penguin in the US and the UK in September.
To find out more visit: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2012/Greek_War_of_Independence.cfm

Amateur readings (in Attic~Ionic style) of the opening Lines1-7 of the Iliad, and the start of Euclid's ElementsBook 13.17 (on dodecahedron)
I loosely transliterated the Iliad lines into MycenaeanLinear B, (for fun), since the Iliad likely depicts the Mycenaean Greek era.
Digamma 'w' was lost in Classical Greek, but persisted in some dialects.
I think diaresis iota ï marked syllabic stress, or possibly a glottal stop syllable break (uncertain).
Doubled consonants are geminated / long.
I think acute accent is a high tone on short vowels,
and rising tone on long vowels ω ει η ου.
Circumflex / squiggle is universal high falling tone.
Grave is neutral or mid-low tone (I think).

Amateur readings (in Attic~Ionic style) of the opening Lines1-7 of the Iliad, and the start of Euclid's ElementsBook 13.17 (on dodecahedron)
I loosely transliterated the Iliad lines into MycenaeanLinear B, (for fun), since the Iliad likely depicts the Mycenaean Greek era.
Digamma 'w' was lost in Classical Greek, but persisted in some dialects.
I think diaresis iota ï marked syllabic stress, or possibly a glottal stop syllable break (uncertain).
Doubled consonants are geminated / long.
I think acute accent is a high tone on short vowels,
and rising tone on long vowels ω ει η ου.
Circumflex / squiggle is universal high falling tone.
Grave is neutral or mid-low tone (I think).

IAN JENKINS, PH.D.
SENIOR CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF GREECE AND ROME, BRITISH MUSEUMJenkins explores Greek notions of ideal beauty in both nude and draped images of the male and female human bodies. He contrasts the moral aesthetic of sound mind in sound body with other representations to show how the human form served as a bearer of many meanings. Anthropomorphic gods, larger than life heroes, part-human part-animal monsters of myth are all considered as a visual language. His talk concludes with the legacy of the Greek experience in the Roman era and its transmission to the present day.

IAN JENKINS, PH.D.
SENIOR CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF GREECE AND ROME, BRITISH MUSEUMJenkins explores Greek notions of ideal beauty in both nude and draped images of the male and female human bodies. He contrasts the moral aesthetic of sound mind in sound body with other representations to show how the human form served as a bearer of many meanings. Anthropomorphic gods, larger than life heroes, part-human part-animal monsters of myth are all considered as a visual language. His talk concludes with the legacy of the Greek experience in the Roman era and its transmission to the present day.

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Atmospheric music by Michalis Terzis with traditional violin, santuri, lutes and tzoura, but also including clarinet, saxophone, guitars and English horn.
“Soundscapes, like the fresh wind created by the light breath of the waves of the Aegean, the blue of its sky, a ritual composed of sounds and tunes, awakening memories and dreams leading on a trip through time.” - M. Terzis
iTunes http://geni.us/oLJ
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Atmospheric music by Michalis Terzis with traditional violin, santuri, lutes and tzoura, but also including clarinet, saxophone, guitars and English horn.
“Soundscapes, like the fresh wind created by the light breath of the waves of the Aegean, the blue of its sky, a ritual composed of sounds and tunes, awakening memories and dreams leading on a trip through time.” - M. Terzis
iTunes http://geni.us/oLJ
Amazon http://geni.us/2oik

The AncientGreek and RomanART - Facts
The arts of ancient Greece have exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries all over the world, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture. In theWest, the art of the Roman Empire was largely derived from Greek models. In the East, Alexander the Great's conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Central Asian and Indian cultures, resulting in Greco-Buddhist art, with ramifications as far as Japan. Following the Renaissance in Europe, the humanist aesthetic and the high technical standards of Greek art inspired generations of European artists. Well into the 19th century, the classical tradition derived from Greece dominated the art of the western world.
The art of Ancient Greece is usually divided stylistically into four periods: the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. The Geometric age is usually dated from about 1000 BC, although in reality little is known about art in Greece during the preceding 200 years (traditionally known as the Greek Dark Ages), the period of the 7th century BC witnessed the slow development of the Archaic style as exemplified by the black-figure style of vase painting. The onset of the Persian Wars (480 BC to 448 BC) is usually taken as the dividing line between the Archaic and the Classical periods, and the reign of Alexander the Great (336 BC to 323 BC) is taken as separating the Classical from the Hellenistic periods.
Roman art refers to the visual arts made in Ancient Rome and in the territories of the Roman Empire. Roman art includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work. Luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass, are sometimes considered in modern terms to be minor forms of Roman art,[1] although this would not necessarily have been the case for contemporaries. Sculpture was perhaps considered as the highest form of art by Romans, but figure painting was also very highly regarded. The two forms have had very contrasting rates of survival, with a very large body of sculpture surviving from about the 1st century BC onwards, though very little from before, but very little painting at all remains, and probably nothing that a contemporary would have considered to be of the highest quality. Ancient Roman pottery was not a luxury product, but a vast production of "fine wares" in terra sigillata were decorated with reliefs that reflected the latest taste, and provided a large group in society with stylish objects at what was evidently an affordable price. Roman coins were an important means of propaganda, and have survived in enormous numbers. Other perishable forms of art have not survived at all.

The AncientGreek and RomanART - Facts
The arts of ancient Greece have exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries all over the world, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture. In theWest, the art of the Roman Empire was largely derived from Greek models. In the East, Alexander the Great's conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Central Asian and Indian cultures, resulting in Greco-Buddhist art, with ramifications as far as Japan. Following the Renaissance in Europe, the humanist aesthetic and the high technical standards of Greek art inspired generations of European artists. Well into the 19th century, the classical tradition derived from Greece dominated the art of the western world.
The art of Ancient Greece is usually divided stylistically into four periods: the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. The Geometric age is usually dated from about 1000 BC, although in reality little is known about art in Greece during the preceding 200 years (traditionally known as the Greek Dark Ages), the period of the 7th century BC witnessed the slow development of the Archaic style as exemplified by the black-figure style of vase painting. The onset of the Persian Wars (480 BC to 448 BC) is usually taken as the dividing line between the Archaic and the Classical periods, and the reign of Alexander the Great (336 BC to 323 BC) is taken as separating the Classical from the Hellenistic periods.
Roman art refers to the visual arts made in Ancient Rome and in the territories of the Roman Empire. Roman art includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work. Luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass, are sometimes considered in modern terms to be minor forms of Roman art,[1] although this would not necessarily have been the case for contemporaries. Sculpture was perhaps considered as the highest form of art by Romans, but figure painting was also very highly regarded. The two forms have had very contrasting rates of survival, with a very large body of sculpture surviving from about the 1st century BC onwards, though very little from before, but very little painting at all remains, and probably nothing that a contemporary would have considered to be of the highest quality. Ancient Roman pottery was not a luxury product, but a vast production of "fine wares" in terra sigillata were decorated with reliefs that reflected the latest taste, and provided a large group in society with stylish objects at what was evidently an affordable price. Roman coins were an important means of propaganda, and have survived in enormous numbers. Other perishable forms of art have not survived at all.

For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online exhibit http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/greek-drama-at-the-national-theatre/gQY_KfFn
This film explores the defining aspects of Greek Theatre. The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there. This collection features video about Greek theatre and productions of Greek plays staged at the National Theatre.
Featured in this film are experts Edith Hall, professor of Classics at Kings College, London, LauraSwift from the Open University, Dr Sean McElvoy from Varndean College, Brighton and actor Michael Grady-Hall from the cast of Antigone.
This film includes performance footage from the 2012 National Theatre production of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay, starring Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker in the title role.
This film was made and directed by ChloeWhite for the National Theatre.
Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre:
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover
Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london
iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes
TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre

For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online exhibit http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/greek-drama-at-the-national-theatre/gQY_KfFn
This film explores the defining aspects of Greek Theatre. The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there. This collection features video about Greek theatre and productions of Greek plays staged at the National Theatre.
Featured in this film are experts Edith Hall, professor of Classics at Kings College, London, LauraSwift from the Open University, Dr Sean McElvoy from Varndean College, Brighton and actor Michael Grady-Hall from the cast of Antigone.
This film includes performance footage from the 2012 National Theatre production of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay, starring Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker in the title role.
This film was made and directed by ChloeWhite for the National Theatre.
Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre:
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover
Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london
iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes
TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre

GREEK PRONUNCIATION 1 (Historical Development - Full)

A concise description of the development of the Greek language and certain Greek vowel sounds based on the historical record. This show leads to an understanding of the diachronic application of the historical Greek pronunciation (HGP). Avid learners of Greek will be enlightened. The video affords time for slow reading. Music by Artist Timos Zachariou.
This video is based on a book that encapsulates the historical evidence of the development of Greek pronunciation from classical times to the present titled,
READING AND PRONOUNCING BIBLICAL GREEKVol. I: HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF AUTHENTIC SOUNDS by Philemon Zachariou, PhD.
Website: www.Greeklinguistics.net
Contact: NTGreek@att.net.
See also:
GREEK PRONUNCIATION 2 (Phonetics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQkHQIjntik
GREEK PRONUNCIATION ...

published: 17 Aug 2012

The Human Body in Ancient Greek Art and Thought

IAN JENKINS, PH.D.
SENIOR CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF GREECE AND ROME, BRITISH MUSEUMJenkins explores Greek notions of ideal beauty in both nude and draped images of the male and female human bodies. He contrasts the moral aesthetic of sound mind in sound body with other representations to show how the human form served as a bearer of many meanings. Anthropomorphic gods, larger than life heroes, part-human part-animal monsters of myth are all considered as a visual language. His talk concludes with the legacy of the Greek experience in the Roman era and its transmission to the present day.

300 Spartans, the era of Hellenism, the Greek state, the Greek history,full documentary

Ancient Sparta - a sample of the aristocratic state, which in order to suppress the huge mass forced population (helots) artificially hampered the development of private property and unsuccessfully tried to maintain equality among the Spartans themselves. At the heart of the emergence of the state in Sparta, usually attributable to the VIII-VII century. BC. e., were the general laws of decomposition of primitive society. The organization of political power from the Spartans was typical for the period of the collapse of primitive society: two tribal leader (perhaps as a result of combining the Achaean and Dorian tribes), the council of elders, the national assembly. In VI. BC. e. formed the so-called "system of Lycurgus" (establishment of helots, strengthening communities by equalizing the ...

ProfessorMark Mazower
Thursday 29 November2012The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, LondonSW1Y 5AH
This is the third in a series of three lectures being given on 'The Making and Breaking of States'.
The War of GreekIndependence was a turning point in modern history as it marked the emergence of the first nation-state in Europe and was of course hailed by the champions of liberty and by philhellenes all over the world. This lecture asks how this event was interpreted by three other sets of contemporaries. First, new research casts a fresh light on the Ottoman response to the Greek rebellion, a response characterised both by violence -- as in the massacres on Chios -- and by a perhaps surprising equanimity. Second, how it was interpreted by the members of the Concert of Europe and what implications it seemed to carry for this new effort at managing international relations. And thirdly, how it was interpreted more widely, by commentators and statesmen, at a time when affairs in Europe reverberated in Asia and the Americas, and helped to produce a new consciousness of the global character of international politics.
About the Speaker
Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of HIstory at Columbia University and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. He studied classics, philosophy and modern history at Oxford University and is the author of numerous books on modern Greek, European and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World: the History of an Idea will be published by Penguin in the US and the UK in September.
To find out more visit: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2012/Greek_War_of_Independence.cfm

ProfessorMark Mazower
Thursday 29 November2012The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, LondonSW1Y 5AH
This is the third in a series of three lectures being given on 'The Making and Breaking of States'.
The War of GreekIndependence was a turning point in modern history as it marked the emergence of the first nation-state in Europe and was of course hailed by the champions of liberty and by philhellenes all over the world. This lecture asks how this event was interpreted by three other sets of contemporaries. First, new research casts a fresh light on the Ottoman response to the Greek rebellion, a response characterised both by violence -- as in the massacres on Chios -- and by a perhaps surprising equanimity. Second, how it was interpreted by the members of the Concert of Europe and what implications it seemed to carry for this new effort at managing international relations. And thirdly, how it was interpreted more widely, by commentators and statesmen, at a time when affairs in Europe reverberated in Asia and the Americas, and helped to produce a new consciousness of the global character of international politics.
About the Speaker
Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of HIstory at Columbia University and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. He studied classics, philosophy and modern history at Oxford University and is the author of numerous books on modern Greek, European and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World: the History of an Idea will be published by Penguin in the US and the UK in September.
To find out more visit: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2012/Greek_War_of_Independence.cfm

GreeksRomansVikingsThe Founders Of Europe - Episode 1: The Greeks - HistoryDocumentary HD. Ancient Greece, the cradle of modern Europe. Around3000 years ago, the cultural foundations of western civilisation were laid right here, on the shores of the Mediterranean. It’s the birthplace of democracy, where great thinkers forged the beginnings of scientific reasoning, where theatre was turned into mass entertainment, and where the Olympic Games began. Imaginative animation, stunning visuals and an entertaining narrative combine in an extraordinary exploration of Greece and the rise of an ancient super-power that would leave a permanent mark on society. GoodSBS documentary, from Germany, in German & Greek. Please be merciful with the parts where Greeks (who don't really look like Greeks but rather like Middle Easterns) speak German... :)
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The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

GreeksRomansVikingsThe Founders Of Europe - Episode 1: The Greeks - HistoryDocumentary HD. Ancient Greece, the cradle of modern Europe. Around3000 years ago, the cultural foundations of western civilisation were laid right here, on the shores of the Mediterranean. It’s the birthplace of democracy, where great thinkers forged the beginnings of scientific reasoning, where theatre was turned into mass entertainment, and where the Olympic Games began. Imaginative animation, stunning visuals and an entertaining narrative combine in an extraordinary exploration of Greece and the rise of an ancient super-power that would leave a permanent mark on society. GoodSBS documentary, from Germany, in German & Greek. Please be merciful with the parts where Greeks (who don't really look like Greeks but rather like Middle Easterns) speak German... :)
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The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

GREEK PRONUNCIATION 1 (Historical Development - Full)

A concise description of the development of the Greek language and certain Greek vowel sounds based on the historical record. This show leads to an understandin...

A concise description of the development of the Greek language and certain Greek vowel sounds based on the historical record. This show leads to an understanding of the diachronic application of the historical Greek pronunciation (HGP). Avid learners of Greek will be enlightened. The video affords time for slow reading. Music by Artist Timos Zachariou.
This video is based on a book that encapsulates the historical evidence of the development of Greek pronunciation from classical times to the present titled,
READING AND PRONOUNCING BIBLICAL GREEKVol. I: HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF AUTHENTIC SOUNDS by Philemon Zachariou, PhD.
Website: www.Greeklinguistics.net
Contact: NTGreek@att.net.
See also:
GREEK PRONUNCIATION 2 (Phonetics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQkHQIjntik
GREEK PRONUNCIATION 3 (First Epistle of John)
https://youtu.be/wJZ-DI0I_lQ
GREEK PRONUNCIATION 4 (Tips)
https://youtu.be/QsKRlzZP3aY

A concise description of the development of the Greek language and certain Greek vowel sounds based on the historical record. This show leads to an understanding of the diachronic application of the historical Greek pronunciation (HGP). Avid learners of Greek will be enlightened. The video affords time for slow reading. Music by Artist Timos Zachariou.
This video is based on a book that encapsulates the historical evidence of the development of Greek pronunciation from classical times to the present titled,
READING AND PRONOUNCING BIBLICAL GREEKVol. I: HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF AUTHENTIC SOUNDS by Philemon Zachariou, PhD.
Website: www.Greeklinguistics.net
Contact: NTGreek@att.net.
See also:
GREEK PRONUNCIATION 2 (Phonetics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQkHQIjntik
GREEK PRONUNCIATION 3 (First Epistle of John)
https://youtu.be/wJZ-DI0I_lQ
GREEK PRONUNCIATION 4 (Tips)
https://youtu.be/QsKRlzZP3aY

IAN JENKINS, PH.D.
SENIOR CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF GREECE AND ROME, BRITISH MUSEUMJenkins explores Greek notions of ideal beauty in both nude and draped images of the male and female human bodies. He contrasts the moral aesthetic of sound mind in sound body with other representations to show how the human form served as a bearer of many meanings. Anthropomorphic gods, larger than life heroes, part-human part-animal monsters of myth are all considered as a visual language. His talk concludes with the legacy of the Greek experience in the Roman era and its transmission to the present day.

IAN JENKINS, PH.D.
SENIOR CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF GREECE AND ROME, BRITISH MUSEUMJenkins explores Greek notions of ideal beauty in both nude and draped images of the male and female human bodies. He contrasts the moral aesthetic of sound mind in sound body with other representations to show how the human form served as a bearer of many meanings. Anthropomorphic gods, larger than life heroes, part-human part-animal monsters of myth are all considered as a visual language. His talk concludes with the legacy of the Greek experience in the Roman era and its transmission to the present day.

Ancient GreeceHistory ChannelDocumentary (Engineering an Empire). Western Civilization has been influenced by many cultures, from Rome to America, but it was born in A,ncient Greece. Centuries before Julius Caesar conquered much of the known world, the Ancient Greeks were laying a foundation that has supported 3000 years of European history. Ancient Greece brings to mind philosophers like Aristotle and Socrates, Olympian gods, the beginnings of democracy, astonishing technological innovations, great conquering armies like those of Alexander the Great, and savage internecine battles, none more famous than the duel to the death between Athens and Sparta.
Greece is a story about the human drive to explore, to wonder, to be curious. Their ruins now communicate that drive. Over 1000 years, this strong and charismatic people strategically harnessed the materials and people around them to create the most advanced technological feats the world had ever seen.
From The Tunnel of Samos: a mile-long aqueduct dug through a large mountain of solid limestone, to Agamemnon's Tomb, to The Parthenon, this episode will examine the architecture and infrastructure engineered by the Greek Empire. Engineering an Empire is an excellent series and definitely worth watching.
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The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “GreekWays: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

Ancient GreeceHistory ChannelDocumentary (Engineering an Empire). Western Civilization has been influenced by many cultures, from Rome to America, but it was born in A,ncient Greece. Centuries before Julius Caesar conquered much of the known world, the Ancient Greeks were laying a foundation that has supported 3000 years of European history. Ancient Greece brings to mind philosophers like Aristotle and Socrates, Olympian gods, the beginnings of democracy, astonishing technological innovations, great conquering armies like those of Alexander the Great, and savage internecine battles, none more famous than the duel to the death between Athens and Sparta.
Greece is a story about the human drive to explore, to wonder, to be curious. Their ruins now communicate that drive. Over 1000 years, this strong and charismatic people strategically harnessed the materials and people around them to create the most advanced technological feats the world had ever seen.
From The Tunnel of Samos: a mile-long aqueduct dug through a large mountain of solid limestone, to Agamemnon's Tomb, to The Parthenon, this episode will examine the architecture and infrastructure engineered by the Greek Empire. Engineering an Empire is an excellent series and definitely worth watching.
......................................................................
The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “GreekWays: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

300 Spartans, the era of Hellenism, the Greek state, the Greek history,full documentary

Ancient Sparta - a sample of the aristocratic state, which in order to suppress the huge mass forced population (helots) artificially hampered the development o...

Ancient Sparta - a sample of the aristocratic state, which in order to suppress the huge mass forced population (helots) artificially hampered the development of private property and unsuccessfully tried to maintain equality among the Spartans themselves. At the heart of the emergence of the state in Sparta, usually attributable to the VIII-VII century. BC. e., were the general laws of decomposition of primitive society. The organization of political power from the Spartans was typical for the period of the collapse of primitive society: two tribal leader (perhaps as a result of combining the Achaean and Dorian tribes), the council of elders, the national assembly. In VI. BC. e. formed the so-called "system of Lycurgus" (establishment of helots, strengthening communities by equalizing the influence of Sparta their economically and Political Rights and the transformation of the community in a military camp). At the head of the state were two arhageta who were chosen every eight years by divination by the stars. They are subordinate to the army, and they were entitled to most of the spoils of war, had the right of life and death in the campaigns.

Ancient Sparta - a sample of the aristocratic state, which in order to suppress the huge mass forced population (helots) artificially hampered the development of private property and unsuccessfully tried to maintain equality among the Spartans themselves. At the heart of the emergence of the state in Sparta, usually attributable to the VIII-VII century. BC. e., were the general laws of decomposition of primitive society. The organization of political power from the Spartans was typical for the period of the collapse of primitive society: two tribal leader (perhaps as a result of combining the Achaean and Dorian tribes), the council of elders, the national assembly. In VI. BC. e. formed the so-called "system of Lycurgus" (establishment of helots, strengthening communities by equalizing the influence of Sparta their economically and Political Rights and the transformation of the community in a military camp). At the head of the state were two arhageta who were chosen every eight years by divination by the stars. They are subordinate to the army, and they were entitled to most of the spoils of war, had the right of life and death in the campaigns.

Learning Ancient Greek for Beginners

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Ancient Greek is a language like no other. It records an astonishing array of great works in different genres, stretching across a thousand years of history.
Homer, one of the most influential poets ever, recited in the matchless cadences of the epic literary Greek dialect. The Apostle Paul, the Four Evangelists, and the other authors of the New Testament also left their accounts in Greek, using Koine, the beautifully clear conversational Greek spoken in the eastern Mediterranean of their day. Likewise, Sappho, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Plato, Demosthenes, and many other ancient authors wrote in Greek, each with a distinct style that makes their individual voices live across the centuries.
After just a few hours of Greek 101: Learning an Ancient Language, you’ll understand why no translation can capture the expressive power of this incomparable tongue.
In some ways simpler than English, in other ways more complex, Greek is a delight to study. As you work through these 36 engaging half-hour lessons, mastering the graceful alphabet, the precision of the nouns and verbs, the endlessly flexible syntax, you’ll become comfortable with Ancient Greek.
With no prior experience required, Greek 101 gives beginners direct access to a remarkable heritage. Covering all of the topics in a typical year of introductory ancient Greek at the college level, these user-friendly lessons focus on teaching you to read unadapted passages from Homer’s Iliad and the New Testament—two of the most important works in the Greek language, which have for centuries inspired people from all walks of life to learn ancient Greek.
Your guide is Professor Hans-Friedrich Mueller of Union College in Schenectady, New York, an award-winning educator who gives classical language teaching a whole new image. Gone is the drudgery of glacially slow progress that is associated with traditional instruction in ancient languages. Instead, Professor Mueller quickly introduces you to authentic Greek, and he presents his subject with charm, wit, and consummate skill in making Greek logical and understandable.
In this free lecture: Learn the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet using the restored classical pronunciation, recognizing that there was some variation in pronunciation in an ancient world. Practice pairings of vowels called dipthongs, and sound out a selection of words that you will soon be reading in sentences.
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Ancient Greek is a language like no other. It records an astonishing array of great works in different genres, stretching across a thousand years of history.
Homer, one of the most influential poets ever, recited in the matchless cadences of the epic literary Greek dialect. The Apostle Paul, the Four Evangelists, and the other authors of the New Testament also left their accounts in Greek, using Koine, the beautifully clear conversational Greek spoken in the eastern Mediterranean of their day. Likewise, Sappho, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Plato, Demosthenes, and many other ancient authors wrote in Greek, each with a distinct style that makes their individual voices live across the centuries.
After just a few hours of Greek 101: Learning an Ancient Language, you’ll understand why no translation can capture the expressive power of this incomparable tongue.
In some ways simpler than English, in other ways more complex, Greek is a delight to study. As you work through these 36 engaging half-hour lessons, mastering the graceful alphabet, the precision of the nouns and verbs, the endlessly flexible syntax, you’ll become comfortable with Ancient Greek.
With no prior experience required, Greek 101 gives beginners direct access to a remarkable heritage. Covering all of the topics in a typical year of introductory ancient Greek at the college level, these user-friendly lessons focus on teaching you to read unadapted passages from Homer’s Iliad and the New Testament—two of the most important works in the Greek language, which have for centuries inspired people from all walks of life to learn ancient Greek.
Your guide is Professor Hans-Friedrich Mueller of Union College in Schenectady, New York, an award-winning educator who gives classical language teaching a whole new image. Gone is the drudgery of glacially slow progress that is associated with traditional instruction in ancient languages. Instead, Professor Mueller quickly introduces you to authentic Greek, and he presents his subject with charm, wit, and consummate skill in making Greek logical and understandable.
In this free lecture: Learn the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet using the restored classical pronunciation, recognizing that there was some variation in pronunciation in an ancient world. Practice pairings of vowels called dipthongs, and sound out a selection of words that you will soon be reading in sentences.
Learn more about this course and start your FREE trial here: https://www.TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/show/greek_101_learning_an_ancient_language?utm_source=US_OnlineVideo&utm_medium=SocialMediaEditorialYouTube&utm_campaign=149622
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The Persians & Greeks: Crash Course World History #5

In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
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Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring ...

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
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2:01

The Greek Legacy: How the Ancient Greeks shaped modern mathematics

A two-minute animated adventure to Ancient Greece and back again - voiced by Numberphile's...

The Greek Legacy: How the Ancient Greeks shaped modern mathematics

A two-minute animated adventure to Ancient Greece and back again - voiced by Numberphile's JamesGrime!
Often called the "birthplace of civilisation", Ancient Greece heralded numerous advances in philosophy, science, sport and also mathematics. Over six centuries from 600 BC a group of revolutionary thinkers -- from Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus and Aristotle to Euclid, Archimedes and Hypatia of Alexandria -- formalised the rules and language of modern mathematics.
For Greek thinkers, maths wasn't simply a means of calculating amounts but a way of testing reality and understanding the true nature of the world around them. Indeed, Pythagoras is believed to have coined both the words "philosophy" ("love of wisdom") and "mathematics" ("that which is learned"). In turn, Euclid came to be known as the "father of geometry".
At the heart of this new understanding, was the concept of "the proof", developed by Euclid in what is commonly regarded as the most important and successful mathematical textbook of all time -- the "Stoicheion" or "Elements". Built upon the axiomatic method, mathematical proofs were a way of testing assumptions by building up a mathematical argument using self-evident or assumed statements (or, "axioms").
It is this methodology that formed the foundational language and logic of modern mathematics throughout the world. Indeed, Euclid's Elements was widely used as the seminal maths textbook right up until the start of the twentieth century.
Many thanks to James Grime for his expert help on the script and recording the voice-over. Follow him @jamesgrime or find out more at http://singingbanana.com.
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11:46

Ancient Greek History - Archaic Greece and the Greek Polis - 04

In this video we will discuss Archaic Greece, the time period that
follows the Greek Dark...

Ancient Greek History - Archaic Greece and the Greek Polis - 04

In this video we will discuss Archaic Greece, the time period that
follows the Greek Dark Ages. We also discuss the development of writing
and the polis during this transitional period.
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Greek War of Independence in a Global Era at the British Academy

ProfessorMark Mazower
Thursday 29 November2012The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, LondonSW1Y 5AH
This is the third in a series of three lectures being given on 'The Making and Breaking of States'.
The War of GreekIndependence was a turning point in modern history as it marked the emergence of the first nation-state in Europe and was of course hailed by the champions of liberty and by philhellenes all over the world. This lecture asks how this event was interpreted by three other sets of contemporaries. First, new research casts a fresh light on the Ottoman response to the Greek rebellion, a response characterised both by violence -- as in the massacres on Chios -- and by a perhaps surprising equanimity. Second, how it was interpreted by the members of the Concert of Europe and what implications it seemed to carry for this new effort at managing international relations. And thirdly, how it was interpreted more widely, by commentators and statesmen, at a time when affairs in Europe reverberated in Asia and the Americas, and helped to produce a new consciousness of the global character of international politics.
About the Speaker
Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of HIstory at Columbia University and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. He studied classics, philosophy and modern history at Oxford University and is the author of numerous books on modern Greek, European and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World: the History of an Idea will be published by Penguin in the US and the UK in September.
To find out more visit: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2012/Greek_War_of_Independence.cfm

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The Greek Alphabet (Koine Era Pronunciation)

An introduction to the Greek alphabet, using the pronunciation of the biblical era.

Reconstructed Ancient Greek Spoken (Iliad and Euclid)

Amateur readings (in Attic~Ionic style) of the opening Lines1-7 of the Iliad, and the start of Euclid's ElementsBook 13.17 (on dodecahedron)
I loosely transliterated the Iliad lines into MycenaeanLinear B, (for fun), since the Iliad likely depicts the Mycenaean Greek era.
Digamma 'w' was lost in Classical Greek, but persisted in some dialects.
I think diaresis iota ï marked syllabic stress, or possibly a glottal stop syllable break (uncertain).
Doubled consonants are geminated / long.
I think acute accent is a high tone on short vowels,
and rising tone on long vowels ω ει η ου.
Circumflex / squiggle is universal high falling tone.
Grave is neutral or mid-low tone (I think).

The Human Body in Ancient Greek Art and Thought

IAN JENKINS, PH.D.
SENIOR CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF GREECE AND ROME, BRITISH MUSEUMJenkins explores Greek notions of ideal beauty in both nude and draped images of the male and female human bodies. He contrasts the moral aesthetic of sound mind in sound body with other representations to show how the human form served as a bearer of many meanings. Anthropomorphic gods, larger than life heroes, part-human part-animal monsters of myth are all considered as a visual language. His talk concludes with the legacy of the Greek experience in the Roman era and its transmission to the present day.

Greek War of Independence in a Global Era at the British Academy

ProfessorMark Mazower
Thursday 29 November2012The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, LondonSW1Y 5AH
This is the third in a series of three lectures being given on 'The Making and Breaking of States'.
The War of GreekIndependence was a turning point in modern history as it marked the emergence of the first nation-state in Europe and was of course hailed by the champions of liberty and by philhellenes all over the world. This lecture asks how this event was interpreted by three other sets of contemporaries. First, new research casts a fresh light on the Ottoman response to the Greek rebellion, a response characterised both by violence -- as in the massacres on Chios -- and by a perhaps surprising equanimity. Second, how it was interpreted by the members of the Concert of Europe and what implications it seemed to carry for this new effort at managing international relations. And thirdly, how it was interpreted more widely, by commentators and statesmen, at a time when affairs in Europe reverberated in Asia and the Americas, and helped to produce a new consciousness of the global character of international politics.
About the Speaker
Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of HIstory at Columbia University and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. He studied classics, philosophy and modern history at Oxford University and is the author of numerous books on modern Greek, European and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World: the History of an Idea will be published by Penguin in the US and the UK in September.
To find out more visit: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2012/Greek_War_of_Independence.cfm

GreeksRomansVikingsThe Founders Of Europe - Episode 1: The Greeks - HistoryDocumentary HD. Ancient Greece, the cradle of modern Europe. Around3000 years ago, the cultural foundations of western civilisation were laid right here, on the shores of the Mediterranean. It’s the birthplace of democracy, where great thinkers forged the beginnings of scientific reasoning, where theatre was turned into mass entertainment, and where the Olympic Games began. Imaginative animation, stunning visuals and an entertaining narrative combine in an extraordinary exploration of Greece and the rise of an ancient super-power that would leave a permanent mark on society. GoodSBS documentary, from Germany, in German & Greek. Please be merciful with the parts where Greeks (who don't really look like Greeks but rather like Middle Easterns) speak German... :)
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The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

GREEK PRONUNCIATION 1 (Historical Development - Full)

A concise description of the development of the Greek language and certain Greek vowel sounds based on the historical record. This show leads to an understanding of the diachronic application of the historical Greek pronunciation (HGP). Avid learners of Greek will be enlightened. The video affords time for slow reading. Music by Artist Timos Zachariou.
This video is based on a book that encapsulates the historical evidence of the development of Greek pronunciation from classical times to the present titled,
READING AND PRONOUNCING BIBLICAL GREEKVol. I: HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF AUTHENTIC SOUNDS by Philemon Zachariou, PhD.
Website: www.Greeklinguistics.net
Contact: NTGreek@att.net.
See also:
GREEK PRONUNCIATION 2 (Phonetics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQkHQIjntik
GREEK PRONUNCIATION 3 (First Epistle of John)
https://youtu.be/wJZ-DI0I_lQ
GREEK PRONUNCIATION 4 (Tips)
https://youtu.be/QsKRlzZP3aY

The Human Body in Ancient Greek Art and Thought

IAN JENKINS, PH.D.
SENIOR CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF GREECE AND ROME, BRITISH MUSEUMJenkins explores Greek notions of ideal beauty in both nude and draped images of the male and female human bodies. He contrasts the moral aesthetic of sound mind in sound body with other representations to show how the human form served as a bearer of many meanings. Anthropomorphic gods, larger than life heroes, part-human part-animal monsters of myth are all considered as a visual language. His talk concludes with the legacy of the Greek experience in the Roman era and its transmission to the present day.

Ancient Greece History Channel Documentary (Engineering an Empire)

Ancient GreeceHistory ChannelDocumentary (Engineering an Empire). Western Civilization has been influenced by many cultures, from Rome to America, but it was born in A,ncient Greece. Centuries before Julius Caesar conquered much of the known world, the Ancient Greeks were laying a foundation that has supported 3000 years of European history. Ancient Greece brings to mind philosophers like Aristotle and Socrates, Olympian gods, the beginnings of democracy, astonishing technological innovations, great conquering armies like those of Alexander the Great, and savage internecine battles, none more famous than the duel to the death between Athens and Sparta.
Greece is a story about the human drive to explore, to wonder, to be curious. Their ruins now communicate that drive. Over 1000 years, this strong and charismatic people strategically harnessed the materials and people around them to create the most advanced technological feats the world had ever seen.
From The Tunnel of Samos: a mile-long aqueduct dug through a large mountain of solid limestone, to Agamemnon's Tomb, to The Parthenon, this episode will examine the architecture and infrastructure engineered by the Greek Empire. Engineering an Empire is an excellent series and definitely worth watching.
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The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “GreekWays: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

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Ancient Sparta - a sample of the aristocratic state, which in order to suppress the huge mass forced population (helots) artificially hampered the development of private property and unsuccessfully tried to maintain equality among the Spartans themselves. At the heart of the emergence of the state in Sparta, usually attributable to the VIII-VII century. BC. e., were the general laws of decomposition of primitive society. The organization of political power from the Spartans was typical for the period of the collapse of primitive society: two tribal leader (perhaps as a result of combining the Achaean and Dorian tribes), the council of elders, the national assembly. In VI. BC. e. formed the so-called "system of Lycurgus" (establishment of helots, strengthening communities by equalizing the influence of Sparta their economically and Political Rights and the transformation of the community in a military camp). At the head of the state were two arhageta who were chosen every eight years by divination by the stars. They are subordinate to the army, and they were entitled to most of the spoils of war, had the right of life and death in the campaigns.

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